Trick or Treat

Happy Halloween!
With the weather being so nice, it's hard to believe that it is already Oct. 31. Blade knew it was Halloween and all day he was asking if it was time to go trick or treating. I told him it would be time after we ate supper. Well, after we ate lunch he thought it was time...it was a long afternoon...

Here they are...my "Trick or Treaters"

Chay the "gangsta"

Blade the "astronaut"

Nicole the "jailbird"

Nicole stayed at home to pass out candy while I took Blade door to door to collect as much candy as possible. It took Blade a while to become comfortable saying "trick or treat" at doors and opening his bag for candy but, he finally got the hang of it and was only shy if someone spoke directly to him. We passed Chay and his friends along the way and Blade wanted to stay with them but Chay didn't like that idea as much as Blade.

During the latter half of the evening, Blade would sit down after each house and show me what candy he got at the house.

Our house
...the one time of the year that the color really works...

Blade ("I think I'm turning Japanese, yes I think so...) and his stash.

"The Man" and his stash

Blade trying on Chay's vampire teeth after doing the candy check...it's amazing how they changed his look completely (and the drop of drool really adds also). Now I'm a firm believer that teeth make the person.

The weird thing is that while I having been writing this post, Nicole has been sitting behind me going through some of my old journals and reading them to me. And I realize that it's difficult for me to write something and listen to something else. So this post has limited writing and insight. However, it did make me become tearful when Nicole was reading a segment that I had written to "my baby" (her) when I was pregnant with her and had heard her heart beat for the first time. Journal writing use to be a regular occurrence for me and then things changed and I stopped. I have missed out on a lot by failing to keep a journal for many years. The good news however, is that I have been keeping a journal since the summer and am documenting my life. The journal is a program I use on the computer and I can insert pictures and it's great. So between the journal and my blog, my family will know, "This is me".

How was Halloween in your area?